Nonstop flight route between Prague, Czech Republic and Akrotiri, Cyprus:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Prague Vaclav Havel Airport (PRG), Prague, Czech Republic and RAF Akrotiri (AKT), Akrotiri, Cyprus would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,428 miles (or 2,298 kilometers).
A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the relatively short distance between Prague Vaclav Havel Airport and RAF Akrotiri, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | PRG / LKPR |
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Location: | Prague, Czech Republic |
GPS Coordinates: | 50°6'2"N by 14°15'35"E |
Area Served: | Prague, Czech Republic |
Operator/Owner: | Letiště Praha |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 1247 feet (380 meters) |
# of Runways: | 3 |
View all routes: | Routes from PRG |
More Information: | PRG Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | AKT / LCRA |
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Location: | Akrotiri, Cyprus |
GPS Coordinates: | 34°35'26"N by 32°59'16"E |
Operator/Owner: | Ministry of Defence |
View all routes: | Routes from AKT |
More Information: | AKT Maps & Info |
Facts about Prague Vaclav Havel Airport (PRG):
- It will be over 3,500 metres long.
- As the capacity of the airport has been reaching its limit for the last couple of years, further development of the airport is being considered.
- The political and economic changes affected the seventy years of existence of Prague–Ruzyně Airport.
- In addition to being known as "Prague Vaclav Havel Airport", another name for PRG is "Letiště Václava Havla Praha".
- The furthest airport from Prague Vaclav Havel Airport (PRG) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,771 miles (18,944 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
- The closest airport to Prague Vaclav Havel Airport (PRG) is Vodochody Airport (VOD), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) NE of PRG.
- Prague Vaclav Havel Airport handled 10,974,196 passengers last year.
- Prague Vaclav Havel Airport (PRG) has 3 runways.
- In addition the Civil Aviation Authority also has its head office on the airport property.
- Due to insufficient capacity of the Kbely airport in the middle of the 1930s, the Government decided to develop a new State Civil Airport in Ruzyně.
- The airport has an excellent location both with respect to its short distance from the centre of Prague and within the European area.
Facts about RAF Akrotiri (AKT):
- The closest airport to RAF Akrotiri (AKT) is Paphos International Airport (PFO), which is located 30 miles (48 kilometers) WNW of AKT.
- Akrotiri was also the location of the main transmitter of the well known numbers station, the Lincolnshire Poacher, although transmissions ceased in 2008.
- Akrotiri is also the winter training grounds of the RAF display team, the Red Arrows.
- In the mid-1980s, the US launched retaliatory attacks against Libya after the country's leader, Muammar al-Gaddafi, was implicated in terrorist attacks against US military bases.
- Up until 1974 RAF Akrotiri had a balanced force of aircraft assigned to it, even including No.
- The furthest airport from RAF Akrotiri (AKT) is Rurutu Airport (RUR), which is located 11,556 miles (18,598 kilometers) away in Rurutu, French Polynesia.
- Akrotiri, along with Nicosia, assumed a very important status, as virtually the sole means for projecting British airpower into the eastern Mediterranean, outside of aircraft carriers.
- In addition to being known as "RAF Akrotiri", another name for AKT is ""Aki"".